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Pumpkin Fairy House

November 6, 2015 By Amanda Formaro This post may contain affiliate links

A couple weeks ago my daughter asked if I would help her make a pumpkin fairy house. She wanted to enter it into the pumpkin decorating contest where she works. We talked about what it would look like and then we set out to create this darling fairy house for fall!

Pumpkin Fairy House

When Kristen asked me about this she really wanted to model it after my fairy garden that was in the studio window box. Since the summer season had ended, I had already replaced the fairy garden with a Halloween display including my Barbie Zombies and the Walking Dead door I made for them. I knew the moss in the fairy garden was only going to last one summer. The sun had faded it terribly, so I already intended to recycle all that I could from the garden itself.

We were able to use the bird bath, the stepping stones and even some of the moss and flowers that weren’t exposed to direct sunlight.

As you can see from the former fairy house, we removed all the old moss and the flowers to reuse in this new project.

Before starting we talked about the different ideas we had. I sketched it out and we got to work.

And here was my daughter’s text message to me after the contest… she won! So exciting! She brought the winning pumpkin fairy garden back to my studio so I could display it in the window box. Since Halloween was over it was time to take the zombies in anyway.

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Here are some close up shots of the different areas of the fairy house. We used a real pumpkin, so again, as with my last fairy garden, this project is temporary. However, you could absolutely use a fake pumpkin
to bring out year after year.

To make the door, we used wire nips to cut small twigs and glued them together. For purposes of the contest, we used hot glue for everything. However, when the fairy house returned to the studio, I reattached most items with regular craft glue. Hot glue melts and cools outside in the sun and shade, causing things to fall off.

Because a pumpkin is round, the door cannot just be glued on at ground level. After gluing the door on we built stairs from the wood slices we recycled from the original fairy garden. Hot glue held them together great.

Next we made the windows by cutting shapes from yellow card stock and framing with twigs. After gluing them to the pumpkin, we covered the top with moss to make the roof.

We used a thick piece of foam core board for the base. After deciding where the house would sit, we removed it and added the pebble path. We simply squeezed glue out in the shape of a path and sprinkled the pebbles on top. Then we squeezed glue all over the rest of the board (except where the pumpkin would sit) and covered it with moss.

Some of the smaller details included a large pine cone as a tree, tying some raffia with twine to make a corn stalk and making the toadstools. I cut about 1/3 off of the Styrofoam balls and used Smooth Finish over the top to make the foam easier to paint. I used toothpicks as stems.

After adding many of the details we realized that the pebbles weren’t all fixed to the board. Many were loose, so I covered the path with Mod Podge. I used a paintbrush to spread it around and make sure all the cracks were filled. I pointed a fan at it overnight to aid the drying process.

Kristen loved the way it came out, even if I did add a few more details after we were done!

I added a few more little flowers and a couple of birds. So if you’re in Twin Lakes, be sure to stop by and check out the window box display!

Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also the editor for the Home & Garden channel at Craft Gossip and owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com.

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